Welcome to the law offices of: 24-hour toll free DUI legal hotlines: 323 Lakeside Avenue #450 888-KICK-DUI Cleveland, Ohio 44113 or (216) 241-0011 - phone 800-LAW (216) 479-7687 - fax (216) 470-8098 - cell We Never Close!! Proud Member DUI Defenders We Go to all Ohio DUI Courts!!! This page summarizes the basic of Ohio law on driving under the influence. What is driving "under the influence" or "over the legal limit"? In Ohio, driving under the influence includes driving while intoxicated with too much alcohol, or driving under the influence of a drug of abuse. Although you hear much more about "alcohol-related" incidents, one can be convicted be " under the influence " if a jury determines that: the defendant consumed some alcohol or drug of abuse, whether mild or potent, in such a quantity, whether small or great, that it adversely affected and appreciably impaired the defendant's actions, reactions, or mental processes under the circumstances then existing and deprived him of that clearness of intellect and control of himself which he would otherwise have possessed Only lawyers and judges could come up with such a long and convoluted definition. However, this is generally the instruction given to juries when they deliberate in a DUI/DWI trial. | |
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